๐Ÿฅ‡ BANNER Thank God That I Didn't Hit It!

tabman

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Jul 5, 2011
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Germantown, Tennessee
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Detector(s) used
Presently: CTX 3030, Tesoro Modded Cibola, F75LTD-2, XP Deus, Tesoro Mojave, MXT Pro, Tesoro Eldorado, Whites MXT All Pro, Minelab Equinox, Fisher CZ5 & CZ3D
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
I got a early start this morning at the 1853 home site permission. I've pounded this site really super hard with my CTX 3030, Equinox, F75DST, CZ3D, and Deus detectors. I've pulled string lines to make sure that I'm getting my search coils over every inch of ground. Keep in mind, with every detector I'm digging all repeatable non-ferrous targets regardless of ID. I'm going back over all of it again with my Tesoro detectors and I'm still finding lots of targets.

This morning right off I found a horse shoe and I figured it was going to bring me some good luck. I had my modded Cibola with a 8 inch concentric search coil attached. I set the threshold to a slight hum, turned the sensitivity all the way up, set to discrimination just barely high enough to disc out an iron nail and ground balanced so it would be a little on the negative side. It was running sweet and smooth.

I was finding plenty of targets to dig that the other detectors had missed. I was finding pull tabs, some nickels and some other low conductors. In my mind those could have been gold rings. For some reason Tesoro detectors just finds stuff that other detectors can't or they talk you out of digging. lol

Anyway, I got my search coil over nice sounding target and popped a plug. I checked the plug with my pin-pointer and it sounded off. I knock off some dirt and saw about an inch of deep yellow gold chain. I knew by how it looked that it was the real deal! I started saying oh God please let it be a whole chain that I didn't cut in half with my digger. It took a minute or so to compose myself before I started slowly and carefully pulling the chain from the plug.

Lucky me, I didn't hit it! It's old gold marked '750' which is 18k gold. It's 25 inches long and weighs in at whopping 17.25 grams! Talk about getting excited. Finding that much gold 'dirt fishing' doesn't happen too often. I was so excited that I decided to come on home early because I couldn't concentrate on detecting. You have to be able to concentrate when you're detecting. lol I'll go back in couple of days and do some more swinging with my Tesoro detectors.

tabman


 

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Brendan75

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Hi, wow Congrats on the nice gold chain you found:occasion14:
 

RVRoamer73

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Oh wow!! That would blow a valve out if I dug that awesome gold chain and pendant. You absolutely hit the mother load. Fantastic! Way to go on that nice permission. Just wow!

My Banner Vote is in.
 

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tabman

tabman

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Jul 5, 2011
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Germantown, Tennessee
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Presently: CTX 3030, Tesoro Modded Cibola, F75LTD-2, XP Deus, Tesoro Mojave, MXT Pro, Tesoro Eldorado, Whites MXT All Pro, Minelab Equinox, Fisher CZ5 & CZ3D
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting

DeepseekerADS

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CTX, Excal II, EQ800, Fisher 1260X, Tesoro Royal Sabre, Tejon, Garrett ADSIII, Carrot, Stealth 920iX, Keene A52
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Thanks! My wife give it a 'Banner Vote' as well! She knows her jewelry.
tabman[/QUOTE]

Well, I guess my Banner Vote is not necessary now - ya got the Queen of all votes :)
 

DeepseekerADS

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21,725
SW, VA - Bull Mountain
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CTX, Excal II, EQ800, Fisher 1260X, Tesoro Royal Sabre, Tejon, Garrett ADSIII, Carrot, Stealth 920iX, Keene A52
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Now, on that butter knife, I couldn't scan in close enough to determine sterling or not. Was it sterling?
 

Steve in PA

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Holy Cow! How do you lose something like that?
I'm more of a colonial coin and relic guy, but I'm voting Banner on that chain!
 

dirtlooter

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Jun 5, 2014
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mid western ARK
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Heart stopper for sure! Awesome job on recovering it in one piece too! The whole thing and 18k to boot, crazy man!
 

xr7ator

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OOOOOOOHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice and way to work the midtones, monotone if that is what that particular machine does....ever better! Excellent job!
 

Chug And Red

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I know that feeling cant concentrate after finding big gold :hello2: My avatar is the gold medallion of St Barbra that I found 14k six rubies size of a silver doller
 

Reanm8er

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Tabman, tabman, they're whispering your name in the hall of ancient treasure hunters! Congrats and many happy returns! Banner!
 

kenstein

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Congrats, Tabman. That's amazing. Good story and good pics. I'm voting Banner as well.
 

btripp6

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Beautiful chain! Congrats!
 

Terry Soloman

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WoWWWWWW!!!!!!!! :hello2::headbang::notworthy:
 

digging440yrs

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Ka Ching !! :occasion14:
 

Silvermonkey

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Apr 24, 2013
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Wow...that gold chain is something else! You and Mr. Tesero deserve extra special credit. Congrats!
 

Hookedondetecting

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Jul 18, 2013
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Congrats- That's a Beauty! Your going to remember that one for a long time.
 

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